Anxious Quote by Guy Finley

“Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity the involuntary reflex of fear”

— Paul Gorman

“Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this…

— Pema Chödrön

Compassion starts to breed when you feel the active desire to alleviate the sufferings of others.

— Arsenio V Manalo Jr

When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and…

— Pema Chodron

Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable.…

— Joanna Macy

“At first, as we undertake the cultivation of compassion, we may feel genuine empathy with others in pain or difficulty. This happens when we…

— Joseph Goldstein

“Impaired social interactions and withdrawal may not be the result of a lack of compassion, incapability to put oneself into someone else’s position or…

— Temple Grandin

When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.

— Sue Monk Kidd

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

— Sophie Swetchine

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

— Pema Chodron

“Compassion fatigue is a common phenomenon, and nurses are especially vulnerable.”

— Carmel Sheridan

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings…

— Susan Sontag